I've Never Traveled To France, But I Often Hear...

[scubalaydee]

I love to sip white dry wine when I am cooking it is the best

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

I live 1 hour south in Natchitoches. My mother in law lives in Bossier and I'm up there a lot.

How neat! I do gotta admit I LOVE the south! Do you vacation much up Arkansas way?

[chubbyalaskagriz]

RE: "Do you vacation much up Arkansas way?"

Cath- my Mom is from Pine Bluff, AR. and I have family in Stuttgart, Clarendon, and in the north- Marshall, Timbo and the Ozarks area...

[jpshaw]

Do you vacation much up Arkansas way?

Very rarely. I would like to take "Suiside Seven" (Hwy 7) up through the fall season but my wife hates mountain type roads.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Very rarely. I would like to take "Suiside Seven" (Hwy 7) up through the fall season but my wife hates mountain type roads.

Get her a nice soft pair of sleep mask and she'll be just fine

I can imagine it would be beautiful in the fall when all the leaves are turning! I love the Mt. Ida area best of all in the Quicitah mountain range area (if my memory serves me right). We found a road there that led to one of the Quartz mines and found some nice quartz crystals laying in the road bed that had fallen off from trucks. I found one that was a clear crystal that had a small smoky quartz crystal that had grown inside it, they call them Phantom Crystals, very neat inclusion indeed, I have hung onto it all these years. And I can not brag enough on the Buffalo River and the crystal clear water ther, you could see huge fish without even trying! The Cato River too, stayed in a B&B cabin located right along side the Cato!!! Too neat!

Kev, if I were you I'd be visiting my relatives all the time LOL.

P.S. Found a terrific Arrow Head there as well a real beaut. it was a perfect specimen! Lots of Indian artifacts there still to be found!

[scubalaydee]

Promise her a treat something she likes a lot at least it is something to look forward to after the hike. I love to vacation in Vermont and rent a log cabin old or new very different and wonderful with the river overlooking your verandah, trees as tall as the eye can see, so woody, and so deep in the woods that you can't hear any traffic or noises, to me that's heaven!

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Promise her a treat something she likes a lot at least it is something to look forward to after the hike. I love to vacation in Vermont and rent a log cabin old or new very different and wonderful with the river overlooking your verandah, trees as tall as the eye can see, so woody, and so deep in the woods that you can't hear any traffic or noises, to me that's heaven!

I've got buds who live in Bellows Falls, VT, and I've never been there but others tell me it's heaven on earth!

[The Ironic Chef]

I feel that way when I am up by Lake George Scubalaydee.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Promise her a treat something she likes a lot at least it is something to look forward to after the hike. I love to vacation in Vermont and rent a log cabin old or new very different and wonderful with the river overlooking your verandah, trees as tall as the eye can see, so woody, and so deep in the woods that you can't hear any traffic or noises, to me that's heaven!

Vermont is georgeous!!! I agree with you Scuba life in the thick woods is heavenly

How about Maine? I love BarHarbor and the surrounding area, so beautiful! I have only been once to that neck of the woods, it's too far from home

[Keziah]

I've been to France several times. Drive down to Dover and it's only about 3/4of an hour from there to Calais.

I've never used the Tunnel, always used the ferry. Don't agree with it, never should have been allowed but that is another story.

I find the Parisians very rude, but the people in the out side town and villages are nice enough. There is a large butchers in Paris which has a horses head lit up in neon lights. First prize to anyone who can guess what they sell.

Smoke, Lord they can smoke, no wonder most of them are so painfully thin, they don't have time to eat between cigarettes.

Yes, I've had horse, (steak chevall). Very nice, very tender, a little bit sweeter than beef, but the same texture and flavour.

It does not bother me eating horse, I just wish it was easily available for human consuption in this country. I do not like frogs legs, they do not taste like chicken they taste of rubbery something, slightly fishy. I've eaten snails in garlic, not bad but again a bit rubbery.

A note of warning if you order a bottle of wine, have it in the bottle, because if you let them decant it into a carafe, you will end up with the cheap crapola they put into sauces.